U.S. Presidents

Question 1

John Adams

Answer 1

1797 to 1801
Domestic: alien and sedition acts allowed for the detention of illegal aliens doing what time without trial and cancelled for imprisonment for subversive speech
Foreign: the XYZ affair in which three US ambassadors to France are bribed

Question 2

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 2

1801 to 1809
Domestic: Louisiana purchase
Foreign: suspended trade with Europe

Question 3

James Madison

Answer 3

1809 to 1817
Domestic: states gather to protest the war of 1812
Foreign: war of 1812, also known as the second war of American independence, begins

Question 4

James Monroe

Answer 4

1817 to 1825
Domestic: Missouri compromise tries to maintain balance between slave states and non-slave states
Foreign: Monroe doctrine is issued stating that European powers no longer interfered in the Western Hemisphere

Question 5

John Quincy Adams

Answer 5

1825 to 1829
Domestic: Eire canal
Foreign: no significant foreign policies

Question 6

George Washington

Answer 6

1789 to 1797
Domestic: bill of rights
Foreign: neutrality act asserts Americans intentions of remaining apart from war

Question 7

Andrew Jackson

Answer 7

1829-1837
Domestic: Indian removal from their homelands
Foreign: Alamo taken by Mexican forces

Question 8

Martin van buren

Answer 8

1837-1841
Domestic: financial panic of 1837
Foreign: calls for neutrality after British destroy ship in attempting to assist Canadian rebellion

Question 9

William Henry Harrison

Answer 9

1841

Died in office

Question 10

John Tyler

Answer 10

1841-1845
Domestic: vetoes reforming national bank
Foreign: wants to annex Texas

Question 11

James Polk

Answer 11

1845-1849
Domestic: manifest destiny
Foreign: Mexican American war

Question 12

Zachary Taylor

Answer 12

1849-1850
Domestic: wilmot proviso
Foreign: compromise of 1850

Question 13

Millard Fillmore

Answer 13

1850-1853
Domestic: fugitive slave law
Foreign: Clayton bulwar

Question 14

Franklin pierce

Answer 14

1853-1857
Domestic: Kansas/Nebraska act
Foreign: Peary goes to Japan to open trade

Question 15

James Buchanan

Answer 15

1857-1861
Domestic: dred Scott case
Foreign: confederate states of America form

Question 16

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 16

1861-1865
Domestic: civil war
Foreign: Trent affair

Question 17

Andrew Johnson

Answer 17

1865-1869
Domestic: thirteenth amendment
Foreign: none

Question 18

U.S. grant

Answer 18

1869-1877
Domestic: fifteenth amendment
Foreign: international arbitration

Question 19

Rutherford Hayes

Answer 19

1877-1881
Domestic: removes troops from south ending reconstruction
Foreign: none

Question 20

James Garfield

Answer 20

1881

Domestic: assassinated but unhappy party

Question 21

Chester Arthur

Answer 21

1881-1885
Domestic: Pendleton civil service act
Foreign: Chinese exclusion act